Historic Black cemetery buried below parking lot at the center of a legal dispute. 'These are people who were so oppressed and so discarded and so disrespected in life, and now, even in death, they meet the same fate.'
The sites are endangered for a variety of reasons, she said — development, a lack of historical record-keeping, no political willpower to save them or"While maybe this issue isn't at the top of people's list because we need to focus on the living, it shows that systemic racism permeates everything," Rainville said,"from birth to death and burials.
Supporters of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition perform Sept. 10 to raise awareness of the Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Md.. The chapter of a Black fraternal society, White's Tabernacle No. 39, bought the 1-acre parcel in 1911. While records about what was done to the graves are murky, people have recalled stories of construction workers' unearthing bones and dumping the remains dozens of yards away near a storm sewer.
He lampooned the coalition's messaging:"'I've got 500 graves under this parking lot, and they're going to be desecrated by this mean, bad developer and HOC, this entity that does things in the dark at night.'
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